I was asking someone the other day how I could improve at playing soccer.
Their response is – “You run too fast in the first, but are more successful when you slow down in the second.”
Truth, I do better in the second, I calm down more, I relax more, I’m warmed up, I have a feel for the game, who we’re playing, who I’m playing with – everything at that point in time is known.
But at the beginning, I don’t, so I go too hard.
We see this all the time, projects start off with great success, everyone is in, everyone is going full-tilt, but then we slow down, we fall into our groove, we see mistakes we made at the beginning that could have been avoided if we simply slowed down.
Start your first, as you would run your second and see what the difference would be.
